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d from the mammary gland of a female when cut up, but 
s never witnessed the young in the act of suckling.—Jackson, 
oston Journ. N. H.v. 141. He figures the stomach as having 
ee cavities.—Jackson, l. ec. t. 14. 
_ Clusius erroneously describes the blowers as placed on the head 
the back, and Artedi and Linnzus adopt this error in their 
ter of Physeter macrocephalus. Anderson (Iceland, ii. 186. 
t. £4) gives a figure of a whale with a truncated head, much re- 
embling the old figures of the Sperm Whale, with the blower on 
ae part of the head, like a Physeter. Bonnaterre esta- 
hed on this figure his Physeter cylindrus ; and Lacepéde forms 
genus for it, which he calls Physalus. The Dutch engraving 
oS animal described by Clusius shows this to have been a 
take. 
__ The bunch and hump referred to by Beale and the other whalers, 
aq] pear first to have been described by T. Haszeus of Bremen, in 
23, In a dissertation on the ‘ Leviathan of Job and the Whale 
0 Jonas ;’ on “a specimen 70 feet long, with a very large head, 
‘the lower jaw 16 feet long, with 52 pointed teeth, with a boss on 
‘the back, and another near the tail, which resembles a fin.” Cu- 
vier, after quoting this very accurate description, observes, “Mais 
aprés Pobservation fait sur divers dauphins, cette disposition 
e personne n’a revue pourroit avoir été accidentelle, et alors 
¢ animal n’auroit différe en rien du Cachalot vulgaire.”—Oss. 
Foos v. 331. Indeed Cuvier’s mind appears to have been made 
up that the Sperm Whale had no hump im the place of the dorsal 
, and he wrongly accuses Bonnaterre of having added a tubercle 
‘in his copy of Anderson’s figure, which is not in the original 
(Oss. Foss. 332). Anderson, in the description of this animal, 
cath that it has a prominence four feet long and a foot and a 
high near its tail, as in his figure. But the fact was that 
juvier erroneously combined the Sperm Whale and the Black-fish 
: (Physeter) together; and he could not otherwise reconcile how 
some Shor. as Baca, Anderson and Pennant, described the 
; Sperm Whale with a hump; while Sibbald describes the Physeter, 
fee Cuvier erroneously considered the same animal, with a dorsal 
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overlooking at the same time the great difference in the form 
the head, and in the position of the blower of these two very 
issimilar genera.—Oss. Foss. 338. 
Ee Bell observes,—* After careful examination of the various 
ounts which have from time to time been given of whales be- 
longing to this family, called Spermaceti Whales, I have found it 
ecessary to adopt an opinion in some measure at variance with 
' hose of most previous writers, with regard to the genera and 
b yecies to which all those accounts and details are to be referred. 
he conclusion to which I have been led is, first, that the High- 
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